Improvement in toy horns



W;A.HARWOUD.

Toy-Horns.

` Patented Oct. 28,1873.

narran S'rnrns rs'rnn'r @erica WILLIAM A. HARVVOOD, OF BROOKLYN, NEVVYORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOY HORNS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 144,026, dated October28, 1873; application filed September 6, 1873.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. Hnnwoon, ofBrooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented anew and useful` Improvement in Horns, of which the following is aspecification:

The objects of my invention are to simplify and cheapen the constructionof sheet-metal horns, particularly toy horns; also, to insure uniformityof tone, and produce any desired tone without the slow and tediousmethod of tuning each instrument by filing the reed by hand, which hasup to this time been the practice.

In the first place, I cast the mouth-piece in two parts, in one of whichI form a little slot by casting it on a thin plate, in which slot thereed is inserted at one end, and wedged in so as to be held, and theother piece, which is in the form of a conical tube, fits on over theone in which the reed is tted, and is secured by wedging on it, and atthe same time it binds the one to which the reed is attached, so as topermanently secure the latter by being driven onto the reed-piece, andwithout any other fastening, so that the parts are secured as fast asthey can be assembled. In the second place, the part having the reed isformed with a conical tubular portion on the end to be attached to thebody of the horn, and secured to it by forcing it on the conical end, soas to be held on it bv friction. It may also be solelevations of thereed, and Fig. 7 is a sectional elevation of the reedpiece with the reedattached.

Similar letters of reference indicate corrc 'sponding parts.

` The reedpiece consists of the tapered tubular portion A and thesectional tubular por- 4tion B. They are cast in one piece, and cast ona little plate, which forms the narrow slot C, in which the reed D issecured. The part A is cored out at E in the proper size and taper tofit onto the small end of the body F. G represents the piece forinclosing the reed. It consists of a'tapered tube, enlarged at H, andadapted to fit on the part A of the reed-piece, and be secured by beingforced onto it.

The reeds D are cut or punched out of a sheet of tempered brass by atool which makes them all of the same size. The mouth-pieces are alsoexactly uniform as to size, including the slot O for the reed, so thatany reed will t any mouth-piece, and any outside part of `themouth-piece will iit any inside part.

The reeds are bent a little, as shown in Fig. 6, after being cut out,then forced into the the inside piece, which completes the putting ofthe mouth-piece together. As the metal is soft, the outside piececompresses the slotted portion of the :inside piece on the reed, andpermanently secures it.

The reeds being uniform in size, and the slots in which they areattached being exactly the same depth, the tones will be the same,provided the reeds are bent the same distance varying the extent `of thebend and the distance from the end the tone will be varied to suit.

rIhe completed mouth-piece is forced onto the tapered end of thehorn-tube F, and is held fast thereby. It may also be soldered to thetube, if necessary.

of one standard size for horns of different sizes, and adapt thehorntubcs F to them at the small end.

H. ving thus described my invention,I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. A mouth-piece for horns, composed of constructedand combined substantially as specied.

slots, and then the outside piece is forced on from the end and to thesame extent. By-

It is intended to make all the mouth-pieces i the inside piece A B andoutside piece G H,

2. The slit C, arranged in the part A of the reed-piece relatively tothe part B, for securing the reed, sind formed in the casting of thesaid piece, substantially as specified. 3. The reed secured in the slotof the reedpiece by compressing the met-a1 on the reed by the part Aforced on said reed-piece, substantially as specified.

4. The combination of the reed-piece A B,

outside piece G H, and the reed D, substantially as specied. Y

5. The mouth-piece cast with a socket, I, and attached to the horn-tubeF by forcing the latter into seid socket, substantially as speciiied.

Witnesses: WM. A. HARVVOOD.

A. P. THAYER, T. B. MosHER.

